HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 117 



Description. — Adult. General color satiny white with more or less of a 

 rosy tinge; above barred and spotted with black; a black crescent before 

 the eye and a smaller one behind; two central, elongated tail-feathers 

 crimson with black shafts; bill red; feet yellowish; toes black. Length 

 about 30 inches. 



PROCELLARIID^. PETREL FAMILY. 



Puffinus cuneatus, Salvin. Wedge-tailed Puffin. Uau Kane. 



This rare petrel was originally described by Salvin from the 

 Krusenstern Islands (Marshall group), and the same year (1888) 

 was redescribed by Stejneger as P. hnudseni from Kauai from 

 specimens furnished by Mr. Knudsen. Of the occurrence of the 

 species on Kauai, Mr. Knudsen says : "It was formerly found 

 plentiful every summer at the top of the mountains as high up as 

 5,000 feet, where they had their nests in long burrows, but that in 

 the last ten years they have become rare, as the foreign rats kill 

 them in their nests.'' 



This puffin was observed by Palmer on all the northwestern 

 islands except Midway, but only in small numbers. He says it 

 "lives in pairs and lays only one egg in a rude nest made of grass 

 in a burrow in the sand." 



Description. — Adult. Above sooty brown, darker on head, rump and 

 wing-coverts; quills and tail-feathers black; underparts white; sides of 

 head and body gray; bill horn-gray; feet pink. Length about 17 inches. 



Puffinus newelli, Henshaw. Newell's Puffin.* 



This bird was first obtained by Mr. M. Newell on the island of 

 Maui in the spring of 1894, several of them having been taken 

 from their burrows by the natives and brought to Mr. Newell 

 alive. Two specimens were saved, one of which, the type, is in 

 my possession, the other being in the museum of St. Louis College 

 in Honolulu. . 



*This species was described by the author in "The Auk" for luly, 1900. 

 By an unfortunate misprint it was ascribed to the island of "LTlani" instead 

 of Maui. 



